Over the home stretch of this election, I’m going to visit a number of swing states to gauge the prospects of the two major party presidential candidates.

Here in New Hampshire – once a securely Republican state — the presidential contest pits Democrats struggling to revive their victorious 2008 coalition against Republicans attempting to reignite the conservative insurgency that swept the state in 2010.

In 2006 and 2008, New Hampshire Democrats were exceptionally enthusiastic about voting for Democrats, according to poll data analyzed by Andrew Smith, a political scientist at the University of New Hampshire.